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• I have tried so many times to make windows recognize the java and c compilers using environment variables and it's not working. windows is not recognizing the compilers
  1 project | /r/CodingHelp | 30 Apr 2023

  Download and install the MinGW-w64 GCC for Windows: https://mingw-w64.org/

• Updating CLion Compiler to use C++ Modules
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 12 Dec 2022

  Looking at the Compiler Support page on cppreference.com, it shows GCC version 11 as having partial support for modules. I went to mingw-w64.org website and saw they had MinGW-w64-builds with version 12.1.0/10.0.0, so I figured I'd download and install that, which is where I am having issues.

• Discussion Thread
  2 projects | /r/neoliberal | 8 Jun 2021

  If I wanted to build and run a MASM syntax Win32 assembly program on Linux, I would indeed probably use jwasm to assmble but then I would use mingw-w64 to link (despite the name, it supports 32-bit and 64-bit, it's more up-to-date than pure 32-bit mingw), and then run using WINE.

• Looking for a study path
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 29 May 2021

  Frustrated. I just want to be able to basically create whatever appearance, behavior or utility I want in a windows desktop program, programming in c. Where should I learn from? Figure out what c libraries I'd want then learn and use them? But then every things seems so complicated and I want to understand how it works. I have Mingw64 and I can #include whatever file I need from the provided headers which include all of Windows API index - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs. And I can see the list of headers that mingw provides from here mingw-w64/header_doc.txt at master · mirror/mingw-w64 · GitHub and look them up with some success, I'm willing to look through and memorize them all. But I don't know how it works. There's supposed to be some kind of object file like objects.o which has labels which get removed during compilation and addresses are shifted to the correct relative locations. And then there's a header file which defines the labels and usages of those labels which will make linking work. So all I need is to link the object file and include the header file and I should be good using the code in the object file. It's better than having raw .c files cause it's faster I guess. But then isn't there some code that can't be written in pure c so some one down the line has to write some assembly or another language for an API? How the hell does the library with some magical code even make system code run? And also there isn't a 1-1 correspondence with headers and some headers you find in the source of mingw aren't for the user, and also I can't find the actual compiler part of mingw so how does mingw and gcc come together? And more and more and someone somewhere would learn this in a collage, so there must be a text book for all this stuff right? But it's open source stuff so maybe not? I've spend so much time looking at mingw source and reading Microsoft docs and I still don't understand the paradigm, the theory behind it. I'm not necessarily interested in assembly, but when something goes buggy with my compiler or I can't seem to get some functionality out of my library I want to skill to track it down and fix it. How the hell do I learn anything beyond the standard library which doesn't seem very standard anyway??? I'm willing to read books and memorize stuff I just have no idea where to start. Microsoft docs seems messy, but it's not like they're obligated to teach me like I'm a baby. Where do i read about how gcc works differently on windows vs linux? someone wrote abut that right? How do drivers work on windows and how do I get more raw input from them? How the hell does the windows console work anyway and why is it so restrictive? Should I just go to collage?

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